An online petition has been created, calling on the federal government to establish a national day of mourning in honour of the 215 First Nations children whose bodies were found at a former residential school property in Kamloops, BC.
It has already been signed by about 23-thousand people and counting…
The bodies of the children were found buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School by ground-penetrating radar last week.
The Kamloops school operated between 1890 and 1969, when the federal government took over the operation from the Catholic church to operate as a day school until it closed in 1978.
The flags on all federal buildings and the Peace Tower located on Parliament Hill in Ottawa will be flown at half-staff this week to honor the lives lost, while the provincial government has also vowed to do the same, along with many municipalities and police services.
For more details on the petition, please click here.
A National Indian Residential School Crisis Line is available to provide support to former residential school students and those affected. You can access emotional and crisis referral services by calling the 24-Hour National Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. pic.twitter.com/VnF9sgQ0cc
— Carolyn Bennett (@Carolyn_Bennett) May 30, 2021
To honour the 215 children whose lives were taken at the former Kamloops residential school and all Indigenous children who never made it home, the survivors, and their families, I have asked that the Peace Tower flag and flags on all federal buildings be flown at half-mast.
— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) May 30, 2021
I have asked that the flags at all Ontario government buildings and establishments across the province be flown at half-mast in memory of the 215 Indigenous children whose lives were tragically lost at the former Kamloops residential school.
— Doug Ford (@fordnation) May 30, 2021
On Monday, the flags at City Hall will be lowered to honour the memory of the 215 children found in a mass grave at the residential school in Kamloops. They will be lowered for 215 hours, or nine days.
— Jeff Lehman (@Mayor_Jeff) May 30, 2021
The Town has lowered flags at the municipal office to half mast in memory of the 215 children whose remains were discovered on the grounds of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation Territory. – https://t.co/2gru2yHj3a
— Town of Bracebridge (@townbracebridge) May 30, 2021
